Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Here is another suggestion on how to change the frontend from the main > menu. The idea is that all cdebconf frontend udebs will include a > postinst script and a menu entry setting the frontend as the default > frontend. The udeb will also provide the virtual package > debconf-frontend. > > When main-menu detects that a package implementing debconf-udeb, it > will exit, knowing that init will restart main-menu using > /sbin/debian-installer. We should change rootskel to only set > debconf/frontend the first time it is executed (instead of setting > DEBIAN_FRONTEND). This will make sure the new default frontend is > used when main-menu is started again after it exited because a new > debconf-frontend was selected. > > Here is a patch for main-menu to get it to exit on command. We might > want to change 'debconf-frontend' to something more generic, like > 'exit-main-menu'. I'd rather you didn't use debconf-frontend, since we could theoretically want such a virtual package for debconf on the main system at some point, and this overloads it. Couldn't these udebs set debian/frontend, and then just HUP main-menu? -- see shy jo
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